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Freenode blocking users

Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 9:23 am
by schme16
Seems our IRC has a problem at the moment:
from(christel) [Global Notice] Hi all, it appears one of our volunteers set a network ban which were way too wide last night in an attempt to deal with the current attacks; as a result a truckload of genuine users have been banned from the network, with a misleading and unhelpful message. For more information please enable +w in your client. Apologies for the inconvenience, we'll try tidy up after them now.
I've not had issues but a few people have asked me to post this just to let people no it's recognized and that it'll be fixed asap

Re: Freenode blocking users

Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 2:21 pm
by TechnoCat
Freenode has been doing this for a few months now. It is quite annoying.

Re: Freenode blocking users

Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 3:47 pm
by Robin
It has? I never noticed a thing.

Re: Freenode blocking users

Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 5:51 pm
by TechnoCat
Robin wrote:It has? I never noticed a thing.
I get system messages everyday apologizing for the poor server stability. Not to mention the constant net-splits.

Re: Freenode blocking users

Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 9:14 pm
by Robin
TechnoCat wrote:I get system messages everyday apologizing for the poor server stability. Not to mention the constant net-splits.
I only have seen two system messages since joining, and net-splits are common, but I don't know whether I would call it constant.

Re: Freenode blocking users

Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 9:36 pm
by TechnoCat
Robin wrote:I only have seen two system messages since joining, and net-splits are common, but I don't know whether I would call it constant.
EFnet rarely experiences the same problems.